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BJP president Amit Shah has promised that BJP will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and introduce National Register of Citizens across the country if voted to power again
On the campaign trail in West Bengal’s Kalimpong in Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat and Raigang seat in North Dinajpur, he also accused TMC chief Mamata Banerjee of questioning the air strikes to “appease” her minority vote bank, and demanded that she clarify whether she too favoured a separate prime minister for Jammu and Kashmir like her ally National Conference leader Omar Abdullah.
“We will remove Article 370 from Kashmir after forming the next BJP government at the centre,” Mr Shah told an election rally at Kalimpong in Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency where the party has fielded industrialist Raju Singh Bisht.
Calling illegal migrants from Bangladesh “termites”, Mr Shah said at another rally in Raiganj that his party will throw them out after coming to power at the Centre for a second consecutive term.
Mr Shah alleged that Ms Banerjee, who is vehemently opposed to the contentious National Register of Citizens (NRC) that is currently restricted to Assam, was “misleading” people, and vowed to introduce it in every state after winning the polls.
“It is our commitment to bring in NRC across the country to chuck out each and every infiltrator. Unlike Mamata Banerjee, we don’t treat infiltrators as our vote bank. For us national security is supreme. We would ensure that each and every Hindu and Buddhist refugee gets citizenship of this country,” he said.
